ecrasite

Definitions

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n. An explosive material which is unaffected by moisture, shock and fire, a mixture of ammonium cresylate with picric acid that is prepared from trinitrocresol.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The ammonium salt of trinitrocresol, experimented with in Austria as an explosive for charging shells.

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Examples

Everywhere the traces of frenzied devastation grinned, blackened remains of a wilderness of wires, beams, sacks, broken tools, a disorder that took one's breath away and made one dizzy -- all steeped in the suffocating stench of combustion, powder smoke, and the pungent, stinging breath of the ecrasite shells.